I usually try to stay out of political matters, but what's the deal with Bobby Fischer? How can an elderly chess champion (yet whose mental faculties don’t seem fully intact) be a threat to international security, really? Why would you hold the man in isolation and not allow him to have contact even with his lawyer?
The champion has been in exile for 13 years now and imprisoned for 8 months. One can dispute whether that is punishment enough for his crime of playing chess in Yugoslavia under the U.S. sanctions. But who knows if he’s ever going to even get a trial. No progress seems to have been made in his case since the beginning of his detention, and it sounds like his life and his talent are fading away in prison. Although I have found his speech and his comments appalling and disgusting in the past, including his anti-semite remarks, that is not the point.
I don’t understand the Americans. The whole affair doesn’t even make the news in America. The former hailed champion/hero has lost their interest. Sure enough, he is neither Rambo nor Rocky! On the other hand, if Bobby Fischer was a dolphin, I am convinced that he would be out there swimming in the sea by now, eating herring and playing with his dolphin friends.
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